re: #138 Decatur Deb

The difference in Dem and TPGOP loon-management is simple: we know our loons are loons, they think theirs are prophets. A few koskids aren’t going to make a lot of difference, and their enthusiasm is sort of touching.
Black Bloc ninja anarchists are a different story—they wreck every cause they touch.

Dems definitely do a better better job keeping the loons out of upper management but I was hoping that Obama, especially in his second term, might help to reboot progressive thought a bit. Looking back we all remember how conservatives opposed their own healthcare reform model once Obama adopted it but we often forget he swayed a lot of progressives that the same conservative model was a good idea. That’s no small feat. The same effort could be made on national security, drones and foreign policy too.